Scissors cutting-guide.



' No. 881,619 PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906. J. LINDEN. SGISSORS CUTTING GUIDE.

APPLIUATION FILED F2125. 1905.

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UNITE STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

SCISSORS CUTTING-GUIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed February 25, 1906. Serial No. 247.396.

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPHINE LINDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lake Linden, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Scissors Cutting-Guides, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in gages for scissors, and has for its object to provide a simple, durable, and inexpensive device of this character which may be readily attached to the handle of a pair of scissors and which may be readily removed when desired.

IVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, and in which like letters of reference designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device, the gage being attached to the handle, which in operation is the lower handle of the scissors. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the scissors-guide shown detached from the scissors Referring to the drawings, A designates a metallic bar having a loop C formed at one end thereof. The loop C is resilient and is adapted to clamp the barA to the handle of a pair of scissors and frictionally engage the same. By widening the portion of said bar forming said loop it will be seen that the bar A will be held normally at right angle with the scissors. Also it will be clear that the blades of the scissors will be more easily and accurately controlled by having this attachment secured to the handle of the scissors instead of the blades, as heretofore. The bar A is graduated in inches or other desired measurements for the purpose of measuring the width of the strip of cloth desired to be cut.

An elongated bar B is also provided and is adapted to slidably engage the bar A and is held in engagement therewith by friction, which permits a ready adjustment when desired.

It will be seen that the bar A is adapted to rest normally at right angle with the scissorshandle, and the bar B is adapted to rest normally at right angle with the bar A, whereby the bar B will be parallel with the scissors, whereby the scissors will be accurately guided in cutting.

I/Vhat I claim is The combination of a flat strip A, provided with a scale and a resilient approximately U-shaped loop O at one end of the bar, one arm of the loop approximately alining with the strip A, with a fiat guide-strip B provided with a resilient approximately U shaped loop having one arm approximately alining with the strip B, said latter loop being slidably mounted on the strip A.

JOSEPHINE LINDEN.

WVitnesses:

WILLARD E. GRAY, JosEPH H. J ENKIN. 

